Erastus B. Tyler

Erastus Bernard Tyler (24 April 1822-9 January 1891) was a Major-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Erastus Bernard Tyler was born in West Bloomfield, New York in 1822, and he moved to Ravenna, Ohio at a young page. He was a fur merchant in West Virginia before the American Civil War broke out, and he joined the US Army at the start of the conflict. Tyler took command of the 7th Ohio Volunteers, and he met an ill-fated start to the war in 1861 when John B. Floyd's Confederate army ambushed and defeated his army at Kessler's Cross Lanes in West Virginia. In early 1862, he became a brigade commander of the Army of the Potomac, and he fought Stonewall Jackson's army to a close defeat at the Battle of Port Republic, inflicting heavy losses on the Confederates before withdrawing. Tyler was later wounded at Fredericksburg, and he was given command of the Baltimore garrison in June 1863 after three of his regiment's enlistments expired. From September to October 1863, he commanded the VIII Corps, and he commanded two regiments at Monocacy in 1864. In March 1865, he was brevetted Major-General, and he was mustered out of service in August 1865. He later served as postmaster of Baltimore, and he died in 1891.